That is just bloody great. However, I have full confidence in Gossi, he is da man. I am going through withdrawal symptoms here, I mean if I can't visit that site, what am I going to do? Work? PFffft. And if you need money to help pay for the site, do not hesitate to ask!

Great, now the only way I can picture gossi is in a raincoat and hat. Possibly with a large propeller rising out of his back, and a chainsaw for a hand. Oops, now I'm picturing gossi as Bruce Campbell and saying "Groovy!" I'm very confused. ;-)

LOL, don't you pay a server for the hosting? If you pay them, they can't tell you use too much resources... you pay for what you use... um, this makes sense to me... let me know if you need any help Gossi. The hosting company I've been using is great, and surely we could cover the cost for some dedicated goodness with user donations.

There are usually loopholes in the TOS agreements that allow a provider to terminate an account if it uses too much of the resources. A dedicated solution would probably be the best option, that at probably $100-150US it's not a cheap solution...

Yeah, nearly all web hosts will terminate an account if it has ~100 concurrent users every night. The won't make a money from an account like that, it'll just batter the server and cost them money.

I've just finished an intensive night of sex and love. No wait, server admin. A new 'semi' dedicated (VPS) box is up and running with Debian installed from scratch, with the data migrated over the interweb. People should start seeing it live over the new few hours as their ISPs catch up...

Assuming the DNS has propagated out here, which I assume it has since the forums are up, I see you're on TP. Hope you don't have the problems I've had with them ... generally pretty decent but sometimes I swear they have monkeys for admins.

kurya, the site is back online (in fact there's about 20 people online at the mo on it), but it will take a while for some internet providers to catch up. Folk should email me if they have problems accessing tomorrow (to keep whedonesque clean).

For those the DNS hasn't propagated to you could add the following line to c:windowssystem32driversetchosts and it'll make things work. In 12-24 hours, though, it'd be best to remove it so in the event things change again you aren't stuck looking at the old stuff.

Does anyone else find it ironic that when a website is successful it has troubles?

Yeah. In fairness, it's about money. The website is put together on a budget of hardly anything, held together by my sticky back magic. If I plastered it with popup adverts and GIANT BIG BANNERS (see also: most commericial websites) it'd be fine, but I don't plan to do that.

Really, as the interest in the 'verse dies down, the cost will decrease.